Binding Gibson Guitars By Hand @ NAMM 2020!

Brian Engelman, host of “Un-Conventional” stops by the Gibson booth at the 2020 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA. Take a look as we watch how guitars are created! Follow us in our PRIVATE Facebook group called “TNAM Music” for more videos & daily content! The New American Media just started a Patreon account where you can help fund our operations if you enjoy our content: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewAmerica… We also just started a sports only Instagram page at: www.Instagram.com/TheUnhappyHour Please check out our home page: www.TheNewAmericanMedia.com Please follow us on Twitter @American_Media_ Please subscribe to this www.YouTube.com/TheNewAmericanMedia page www.Facebook.com/TheNewAmericanMedia www.Instagram.com/TheNewAmericanMedia Add us on Periscope: TheNewAmericanMedia Might as well add us on Snapchat too. We’ll try to do more over there. Thanks for your support!

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The Existential Threat Of Killer Robots Has Arrived!

If you haven’t taken a few minutes to consider this issue, maybe this would be a good time to start learning.

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Beneath the smiles and handshakes, tensions simmer as world leaders meet for G20

Will the U.S. & China form a stronger alliance, or will they continue to drift further apart on key issues?

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COLLECTIVE SOUL Concert & Album Review.

CONCERT REVIEW

COLLECTIVE SOUL, GIN BLOSSOMS

MGM, CLEVELAND, 6-11-2019

By R.M. Engelman

I didn’t take long to establish that Collective Soul still really rocks, and still carries a great following.  The crowd packed in with assorted vintage to recent CS T-shirts, and basically stood and sang along start to finish. They’re celebrating their 25th Anniversary with their Now’s The Time tour promoting their new upcoming album Blood.  

Founding frontman Ed Roland jumped between guitar and piano, commanding the entire stage like it was day one. 

On the closing song Run, Ed continued playing a 12-string (that miraculously stayed in tune throughout) while the rest of the band walked to center stage with him while singing the song along with the crowd. 

One by one they walked off the stage, while he continued to play the end of the song offstage with the audience supplying the vocals. 

My favorite drummer Johnny Rabb and bassist Will Turpin held down the rhythm section while lead guitarist Jesse Triplett and guitarist Dean Roland were right on the money.  

The group ran through the hits including Shine, Gel, December, The World I Know, Precious Declaration, and Heavy.  Also included were cuts off the new album, Now’s The Time, Over Me, Right As Rain, and Observation Of Thoughts.  

Gin Blossoms have established their own sound which successfully blends various stylesIn listening to them, at some points they remind you of various acts including Chris Isaac and Blue October.

They played their hits including Follow You Down, Hey Jealousy, Found Out About You, Till I Hear It From You.  Later lead singer Robin Wilson joined CS onstage for a rendition of R.E.M.’s The One I Love.  

Some nostalgia and a lot of fun.  Extremely worth going to see when they come around your neck of the woods!  

CD REVIEW

BLOOD, COLLECTIVE SOUL

By R.M. Engelman

The band is on the road with their Now’s The Time tour celebrating their 25th Anniversary while promoting their new release Blood.  Frontman and keyboards/guitarist Ed Roland is joined by brother Dean on guitars, bassist Will Turpin, lead guitarist Jesse Triplett, and drummer Johnny Rabb.  The album cover depicts what I determine to be referring to as new blood.  

Now’s The Time is a nice heavier song relying on the solid guitar riffs. Over Me is also led by the guitar playing.  Right As Rain is a great medium tempo song with some nice slide guitar work. Them Blues is a nice bouncy piano based tune with some nice backing vocal arrangements.  Good Place To Start relays Ed’s thoughts on life and how to cope.  Observation Of Thoughts has an anthem type quality with some nice piano and guitar work.  Changed is a self-confessional piano ballad nicely accented by strings.  Big Sky is another nice slowed down piece.  Porch Swing is an acoustic guitar and organ led offering.  

The mixing, arrangements, and background vocal use are maximized here.  The most noticible thing is that a great portion of the songs are mainly first structured around Ed’s lyrics and then Will and Dean’s guitar work.  Ed’s strong vocals play well over the top of everything.  The rythym section of Johnny and Will “Gel” (pardon the pun) nicely together to balance out the sound.  The group best known for their earlier hits Shine, Gel, December, The World I Know, Precious Declaration, and Heavy delivers some familiar sounding as well as a lot of fresh sounding material.  When you listen to CS you hear a lot of nuances that became influences, adopted by bands that followed them.  

Catch them when they play your area.  I’ve seen them do most of the new songs live, and together with their back catalogue, it’s a lot of fun.  

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PREVIEW__Football Equals Family – The Story Of The Cleveland Browns Perfect Season Parade__V1.2

The 2017 Cleveland Browns finished the regular season without a win.

Brian Engelman, host of “The Unhappy Hour Sports Show” flew back to where he was raised, so that he could attend the event and get a behind the scenes understanding of the event.

Along the way, Brian stopped to talk with tons of Browns fans who relived their favorite moments in the Browns “glory days”, and also collected lots of venting from a frustrated fan base who is sick and tired of losing.

So check out our first full length documentary, and tell your friends.

If you like our work, please consider tossing us some funding via PayPal or Patreon. All of the travel and editing time costs were self funded, and recouping that would be great 🙂

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China Plans to Launch an ‘Artificial Moon’ to Light Up the Night Skies

This is pretty cool, and creepy. Kind of like the “all seeing eye”. This will be a very interesting project to follow. – Click Here To Read Full Story

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Which 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees Should Be Selected? We Debate!

Host Brian Engelman welcomes his father Bob Engelman to discuss which of the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nominees should be selected to the Hall Of Fame.

Do you agree or disagree with our selections?
Tell us why in the comments section below, and we will try to respond.

A couple of the choices are coin flips, but they give a thumbs up or thumbs down to all of the nominees:

– Todd Rundgren
– The Zombies
– The Cure
– Stevie Nicks
– Rufus Featuring Chacka Khan
– Roxy Music
– Rage Against The Machine
– Radiohead
– MC5
– LL Cool J
– KraftWerk
– John Prine
– Janet Jackson
– Devo
– Def Leppard

– Plus, Bob gives you 3 Christmas concerts that you NEED to check out when they come around your area in the next few months.

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A Night Out With The Ageless Red Rocker!

CONCERT REVIEW
SAMMY HAGAR & THE CIRCLE
HARD ROCK ROCKSINO CLEVELAND 10-17-2018
By R.M. Engelman

The Circle is Sammy’s new circle of friends. Sammy naturally handles the lead vocals and shares rhythm and lead guitar. He’s joined by Van Halen/Chickenfoot bandmate Michael Anthony on bass, Jason Bonham (needs no introduction) on drums, and Vic Johnson (BusBoys & Waboritas) on guitar. The keyboards were as expected, programmed, ala Van Halen.

It’s just a bunch of guys with instruments who need a place to party, led by a guy who doesn’t want to grow up, and why should he? The Red Rocker explained it all, verbally, and physically. The 71 year old was his usual animated and interactive self, and definitely has that “Dick Clark” ageless thing going on. The playlist for the packed house included some of the greatest hits of the Sammy eras in Van Halen, Montrose, Chickenfoot, Sammy (solo of course), and Led Zeppelin.

Mike is a much underrated singer, but in addition to adding background vocals, he took over leads in many of the songs. Jason sported a red acrylic DW drum set reminiscent of his dad’s Vistalites. He took the mike and graciously and elaborately began bestowing the virtues of someone that he looked up to, and then he thanked Michael. I saw it coming!

There weren’t any solos as in previous shows, and no encore, but the guys rocked for almost two hours. Sammy being Sammy, interacted with the crowd drinking, signing, wearing banners, and posing. Ever the businessman, he hawked his Beach Rum and his Santo Mas Mezquila, even substituting Mas Mezquila for Tequila in the song Mas Tequila.

Sammy’s three-day birthday bash in Cabo (at his Cabo Wabo Cantina) evidently lasted a bit longer, explaining this let them get practiced up, as they “Never rehearse, never have, and never will!”. One of his sons joined him singing on Eagles Fly. Standouts were Rock & Roll, When The Levee Breaks, Finish What You Started, Right Now, and Why Can’t This Be Love. Particularly missed were Dreams, and Jason pounding out Moby Dick.

Catch Sammy’s Funhouse when it comes around. What can be better than a fun night out partying with the ageless Red One?

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